Liberalism
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Issue #19, Winter 2011
The “More What, Less How” Government
First Principles: The Role of Government
Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer -
Issue #18, Fall 2010
Advise and Dissent
History shows that dissent within the progressive ranks has been vital to advancing the liberal agenda. A response to Michael Tomasky.
David Dayen -
Issue #17, Summer 2010
Toward an i-Welfare State
When will all the benefits of e-commerce come to e-government? A response to the previous issue’s symposium on liberalism.
James P. Pinkerton -
Issue #16, Spring 2010
DMV Liberalism
Joe Klein -
Issue #16, Spring 2010
Liberalism, Unwilling and Unable
Brad Carson -
Issue #16, Spring 2010
A Time of Limits
William Galston -
Issue #16, Spring 2010
Missing the Movement
Michael Walzer -
Issue #16, Spring 2010
What Happened to Women?
Instead of moving to the center, liberalism should try embracing people who are actually liberals—starting with women.
Katha Pollitt -
Issue #16, Spring 2010
Obama and Civic Idealism
Michael Sandel -
Issue #15, Winter 2010
The Courage of Our Contradictions
A new liberalism must reflect not only on our permanent beliefs, but also on many Americans’ reservations about them. A response to E.J. Dionne, Jr.
William Galston -
Issue #14, Fall 2009
Liberalism Lost and Found
Claiming the future means embracing the full complications of the past.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. -
Issue #13, Summer 2009
The Values That Didn’t Fail
The twentieth anniversary of the fall of communism serves as a reminder that liberalism makes the right kind of “regime change” possible.
Michael Tomasky -
Issue #11, Winter 2009
Left Is Right
Bernard Henri-Levy may criticize the Left, but it is worth saving. A response to Nick Cohen.
Todd Gitlin -
Issue #10, Fall 2008
Left Out
What the downfall of the European Left can teach American liberals.
Nick Cohen -
Issue #7, Winter 2008
The Myths of McGovern
Thirty-five years later, what the 1972 campaign can—and can’t—teach liberals today.
Rick Perlstein -
Issue #6, Fall 2007
Not Left for Dead
Why red scare attacks on liberalism are red herrings. A response to Fred Siegel.
Paul Starr -
Issue #5, Summer 2007
Blinded by the Left
Liberals are at their best when they recognize the difference between themselves and radicalism. Too often in American history, they haven’t.
Fred Siegel -
Issue #2, Fall 2006
The Right Fight
Why liberal internationalists are not neoconservatives. A response to Michael Lind’s review of “The Good Fight.”
Peter Beinart